Which preposition to use with atrocious
These are and have been the most atrocious of the many bandits with which Mexico is infested.
Should the receipt ever be found, this Van Tassel will be obliged to refund; for, though the law winks at many wrongs, it will not wink at one so atrocious as this, provided you can satisfy it with proof.
Nothing perhaps on our earth has ever been done more diabolically than under the forms of ecclesiastical law; nothing can be more atrocious than the hypocrisies and acts of inquisitors.
It happened that Gurzam a warrior, was particularly befriended by the king, but retaining secretly in his heart a bitter enmity to Isfendiyár, now took an opportunity to gratify his malice, and privately told Gushtásp that he had heard something highly atrocious in the disposition of the prince.
The thought was torture to Jean Servien, the more atrocious from the unexpectedness of the discovery.
The course pursued by many of the Federal commanders in Virginia had been merciless and atrocious beyond words.
They who invented him, no doubt could not conceive how men could be so atrocious to one another, without the intervention of a fiend.